My Remembers: A Black Sharecropper's Recollections of the Depression Weaving high-octane prose

high-octane prose

Meg Langslow hears an odd noise and goes downstairs to find her living room filled with dozens of animals—cats

A saga of three generations of the indomitable Cleary family begins in the early 1900s when Paddy Cleary

the complete collection of Maya Angelou's published poems-including "On the Pulse of Morning"-in a permanent collectible

and became the paper's White House correspondent in 1960

My Remembers: A Black Sharecropper's Recollections of the Depression Weaving high-octane proseIn 1929, near Plano, Texas, Eddie Stimpson Jr., weighing 15 1 2 pounds, was born to a 19 year old father and a 15 year old mother. The boy, his two sisters and mother all grew up together, with the father sharecropping along the old Preston Road, the route used by many freedmen trying to escape Texas after the Civil War. His childhood was void of luxuries, but full of country pleasures. The editors have retained the simplicity of Stimpson's folk